Forget Trump, Here Are Five Reasons Why Obama Should Have Been Impeached
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As Democrats privately admit to themselves that there was no Russian collusion, they’ve also shifted gears to focus on the question of obstruction of justice. Despite the Mueller investigation being loaded with anti-Trumpers, even they weren’t able to say that any obstruction occurred. If there’s anything the release of the Mueller report has exposed, it’s not criminal behavior or even impeachable offenses of President Trump, but rather the hypocrisy of Democrats who are willing to call anything an impeachable offense with Trump but pretended the corruption that occurred under Barack Obama was all above board. By any reasonable standard, Congress had multiple impeachable offenses they could have gone after Obama for, but didn’t. Their turning a blind eye to Obama’s corruption completely undermines their efforts today to scandalize Trump and proves that they see two standards of justice: one for Democrats, and one for Republicans. Here are five examples of impeachable offenses that Obama should have been held accountable for, but wasn’t.
5. Illegally creating new laws and entering treaties
Obama’s dictatorial approach to governing would manifest itself many times during his presidency, and any one of them should have had Congress using their check on executive overreach, the power to impeach, but for reasons that can’t be justified, it never happened. One such example is Obama’s unilateral writing of immigration law. It is quite clear that Congress has the power to write immigration law, but Obama decided that since Congress wouldn’t act (and by that, he meant to do exactly what he wanted) he'd simply create a law with his executive pen. When the DREAM Act failed to pass Congress he simply began enforcing it without Congress’s consent by issuing an executive order, known as DACA. It was unconstitutional ( even Obama repeatedly admitted that he didn’t have to power to create immigration law ) and his blatant disregard for the Constitution should have resulted in articles of impeachment being drafted immediately. Lack of accountability to Congress emboldened Obama to expand DACA, but that expansion was quickly fought and defeated in the courts.
In addition to his delusions of dictatorship when it came to writing laws, he also completely ignored the Senate's constitutional role in approving treaties. When it came to his precious and disastrous nuclear treaty with Iran, he knew the GOP-controlled Senate wouldn't ratify it, so he just pretended he didn't need their permission. The same thing happened again with the Paris Agreement. In both cases, Obama cared more about writing his presidential legacy than he did about the Constitution and utterly ignored it.
4. Illegally rewriting existing laws
The most notable example of Obama unilaterally changing existing law without the consent of Congress was Obamacare. According to the Galen Institute, by January 2016, there were at least 70 changes to Obamacare , and “at least 43 of the changes to the Affordable Care Act have been made unilaterally by the Obama administration.”
Obama also unilaterally redefined the meaning of existing laws in order for them to concur with his agenda. In 2016, the Obama administration warned all public and private schools receiving federal funds that “gender identity” was now protected under the 1972 Title IX statute, which protects against sex discrimination. What this effectively did was bully schools into allowing boys to use girls' bathrooms and locker rooms and dorms. Suddenly, “transgender” students' right to use whatever bathroom they felt like trumped the privacy of every other student who might object to having to undress in front of a member of the opposite sex. This also meant that boys declaring themselves “transgender” could play on girls sports teams, and as I’ve covered in the past, this has resulted in male students dominating athletic competitions and ruining opportunities for real girls.
These and other examples are proof that Obama considered himself above the law and the Constitution of the United States.
3. The illegal war in Libya
Democrats often tried to paint the War in Iraq as an illegal war, despite the fact that Congress approved of it, and used that as a basis for calling for George W. Bush’s impeachment. But, when Obama didn’t even go to Congress to start a war in Libya, you didn’t hear any such calls.
Even if you forget the disaster that became of Obama’s war in Libya, what seems to be forgotten is that we never should have been there in the first place. Obama knew Congress was not going to approve of military action in Libya, so instead of going to them for an official declaration of war, he went to the United Nations to get authorization to remove Muammar Gadhafi from power —bypassing Congress’s authority, and as The Washington Time s put it, “dilut[ed] the sovereign power of the United States.”
Obama’s illegal war in Libya proved to be a total disaster. The killing of Gaddafi ultimately led to the destabilizing of the country, enabling ISIS to expand their territory there. Even Obama admitted his actions in Libya were a mistake —but only because of how it turned out, not because of how we got there.
2. Rampant obstruction of justice
I recently documented five high-profile examples of investigations obstructed by Obama and members of his administration and each one of those was an impeachable offense, had Congress had the cajones to hold Obama accountable. But the truth is that obstruction of justice was standard operating procedure in the Obama administration from day one. Midway through his second term, more than half of the nation’s inspectors general wrote a letter to Congress accusing the Obama administration of systemic obstruction of ongoing investigations. That letter should have resulted in the appointment of a special counsel… but Attorney General Eric Holder, who famously called himself Obama’s wingman , wasn’t going to let that happen. In fact, neither Holder or Loretta Lynch, Obama’s second attorney general, ever appointed a special counsel, despite ample times where one should have been appointed. Obama didn’t just appoint attorneys general to lead the Justice Department, he appointed protectors to keep Obama from being held accountable for corruption.
1. Spying on Trump and protecting Hillary
There is n o question that Obama spied on the Trump campaign . We know this happened. We know that this spying was justified using a bogus dossier funded by the Hillary campaign. What began as a means to undermine Trump before the 2016 election ultimately became a means to undermine his presidency. The Mueller investigation, a 22-month effort to uncover alleged Russian collusion predictably turned up nothing, and thankfully, Attorney General William Barr appears to be willing to do something to find out how the illegal spying began . Combine this with Obama’s role in meddling with the investigation of Hillary Clinton , and we get what is truly the biggest political scandal in history. Richard Nixon, had he not resigned, would have been impeached for much less than the crimes of Obama here.
KAGA continues his endless flow of garbage onto the NT. Lies, smears, slanders--it's all here. Isn't this trolling?
MASA - Make America Stupid Again
Yet it seems to only have worked on his deranged haters.
It is an opposing view. If you don't agree, either make an argument or ignore it and let it die.
If it were an opinion, KAGA would indicate that with language such as "In my opinion.." or "I think that..." or "It is my feeling that....", etc. I don't see anything close to those phrases in this (or any other) article from this source. All I see are categorical (and false) declarative statements manufactured from the sliime from the rightwing pukefunnel. Let's just start with the opening sentence of this...."thing:"
That's simply a bald-face lie. It's exactly the same way Sarah Sanders lied about "countless numbers" of FBI agents telling her that the Mueller probe was a witch hunt. It's pure fabrication.
Um, he is posting his seed in the OPINION section. He doesn't need to state what he posts is his opinion.
Hope this educates you.
That makes it even worse since there's absolutely nothing in any of the seeded article or his comments that is stated as opinion. Stating multiple times that obviously false claims are established facts isn't opinion. It's lying.
Doesn't have to. It is implied, because it is in the opinion section, that what he is stating is an opinion. No explanation needed.
Now, if you have a problem with his opinions, fine. Don't just call them lies. You need to point out what part of his opinion is wrong, then you can debate the whys.
So calling a massive shit-load of bald-faced lying and calling them "opinions" makes them so? No wonder so many rightwingers just can't understand what fact and truth are.
Thank you
So what are the lies? Be specific with your assertions, and again as to why you think they are lies.
Obviously libs don't know the meaning of opinion., unless it 100 percent fits their narrow world view, it is a lie.
Get over it.
That's the one thing your Scumbag has accomplished.
What we have is an "opposing opinion" presented as fact by a dishonest broker. There are about the same number of facts and same amount of evidence in this seed proving Obama committing an impeachable offense as there is proving Donald Trump is really just an evolved rectal wart that was excised off his fathers ass and was then raised as his child.
So, he's got a long standing reputation for being a professional liar. No surprise there.
Informed opinions should be based on facts but using the thin excuse of "opinion" to package and distribute lies is what you do, every day, day in and day out.
At least you're not pretending the messenger isn't a well-known liar. You get partial credit for that.
This seed is another case of "The previous guy did it, so Trump should be able to do it also." It is time for this shit to stop and if it has to be Trump that goes down if we as a nation finally put our foot down, so be it. Maybe the next POTUS will think twice before "going there" if they realize the consequences will be severe, both professionally and personally.
Impeachment is a political process, and requires bi partisan agreement to be anything more than a dog and pony show. Impeaching Obama would have accomplished nothing for the same reason impeaching Trump wouln't either. There is no bipartisan consensus he did anything that requires his removal from office. Republican leaders understood that in 2014 and Democratic leadership knows it as well right now.
Democrats are going to spend the remainder of Trump's first term investigating, trying to find politically damaging talking points. That's all this has ever been about.
Not to mention that even if we had impeached Obama - or we impeach Trump - nothing much would happen, anyway. Clinton was impeached but he didn't lose his job over it. It would be interesting to see whether Nixon would have, if he hadn't resigned.
After the assassination of Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, a southern Democrat from Tennessee became the 17th POTUS and it was largely (incorrectly) assumed that he would cut a deal with the South to end the Civil War. Even though Lee had just surrendered, there were four or five other southern Armies in the field, still fighting Union troops.
He befuddled both the North and South while antagonizing Congress ( still alll Northern & western states ) repeatedly, by trying to fulfill some of Lincoln's lenient policies as well as do what was right for the nation as a whole.
He too was impeached and lived through it.
Interesting reading;
If Trump is impeached yet reelected, the EC should head their heads in shame.
This republic would be a true sham if that happened.
The EC had nothing to do with "Clinton" (I guess you mean Bill) getting re-elected (which was by both a popular and electoral vote landslide). You managed to strike out on just one pitch.
Clinton did not win the popular vote in his first election- unless you consider 43% a majority? He can thank Ross Perot for his victory, and possibly his reelection- though Dole was not a great candidate the secon time around.
As for his second term.
Unless you want to claim Ross Perot didn't get votes that would have gone to Bush and Gore?
He got the majority of the votes (add up Dole's and Perot's vote counts and then look at Clinton's number again). But he got an overwhelming plurality of the popular vote. IOW, he was both the PV and EV winner and, as I said by large margins.
False
Calling false propaganda "opinion" is emblematic for how our rightwing deals with language. Orwell would be so jealous.
Carefully read this op-ed article by our dear KAG. Found it to be enlightening in varying degrees although there is evidence of a certain political slant.
My main takeaway from this----------thing--------is the absolute fact that I now more fully understand why it is that in the last thirty plus years the per cent of corn stalks and waste husks have greatly increased in the making of silage.
“This astonishing confirmation, made under oath by the FBI, shows that the Obama FBI had to go to President Obama’s White House office to find emails that Hillary Clinton tried to destroy or hide from the American people.” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “No wonder Hillary Clinton has thus far skated — Barack Obama is implicated in her email scheme.”
"Here Are Five Reasons Why Obama Should Have Been Impeached"
The BIGGEST OF BIGGLEY'S .....NOT on the list !
Obama …"THE" Hussein, Barrack....Colluded with RUSSIANS: